New "LIV Style" Global Rugby League

[Crashy]

Being an optimist, hopefully it gets a few very talented leaguies to leave NRL, get the taste of Union. after two years it goes tits up and they sign for a T14 team and we can select them for Aus.

and Gus Gould finally implodes...

 

[dru]

I've got no loyalty whatsoever to RA let alone World Rugby. But this is actual nonsense and we won't know the true impact on the game until the shit starts splattering on the fan.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Tell you what though. I'd love to see Payne Haas bring it back off a goal line drop out right at someone like Richie Arnold. Look like a Crane Collapsing.

 

[Sully]

RA and WR (World Rugby) are not for profit and invst everything they earn back into the game. I know it not enough right now but they are doing what they can with what they have.
R360, as far as I can tell, is giving nothing back and taking players away from competitions that do give back.
We've seen this model before with Uber and Airbnb and it just creates a clusterfuck and big profits for said companies and an inferior product for everyone else.

 

[PhilClinton]

RA and WR (World Rugby) (World Rugby) are not for profit and invst everything they earn back into the game. I know it not enough right now but they are doing what they can with what they have.
R360, as far as I can tell, is giving nothing back and taking players away from competitions that do give back.
We've seen this model before with Uber and Airbnb and it just creates a clusterfuck and big profits for said companies and an inferior product for everyone else.

Phil Waugh earns $800k as CEO of RA - there are lots of narratives around why R360 is going to cause issues for rugby but don't act like the blokes at RA are out there bending over backwards for the game here and taking nothing for it.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

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[Major Tom]

RA and WR (World Rugby) (World Rugby) are not for profit and invst everything they earn back into the game. I know it not enough right now but they are doing what they can with what they have.
R360, as far as I can tell, is giving nothing back and taking players away from competitions that do give back.
We've seen this model before with Uber and Airbnb and it just creates a clusterfuck and big profits for said companies and an inferior product for everyone else.

Uber when it came out was a game changer because Taxi's had a monopoly of the market. It forced the companies to provide a better service. There are already plenty of options in the rugby market through various comps. At no point have I seen anything from R360 details that show it will improve rugby as a product. I don't know of anyone who's asking for R360? It's just a money-making scheme.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

The fragility of Clubs around the world bar the top French sides is also a worry if some get a worried and up the money for players who threaten to go to R360. It seems every second Prem side is going at a loss from trying to keep up with the neighbours.

 

[Strewthcobber]

It's just a money-making scheme.

Is it even that? It appears to be a money-spending scheme (like Uber), designed to disrupt the existing rugby-world by spending shadowy subsidised revenue with no need to actually balance revenue and expenses.

We've seen what rugby comps that don't have revenue constraints like Japan and France do to the player salary market, this will just make things worse (I'm not saying players getting money is a bad thing, but they generally get paid far more than rugby as a sport can actualy afford, which causes all of the downstream problems for RA and most of the rest of WR (World Rugby) ecosystem)